Nationwide Windows has won orders to supply 40,000 windows to Walsall Housing Group and 20,000 windows to Kirklees Metropolitan Council over the next five years.

Bosses say the orders are a massive boost for the long-term future of the business and its staff.

The welcome news comes in the wake of a blow to jobs, reported in the Evening Telegraph yesterday, which will see some 70 workers at the Computer Repair Centre Group, in Central Way, facing redundancy.

Nationwide commercial director John Whalley, based at Rugby, said: ?Without a doubt, these are our biggest contracts.

?It gives us the long-term stability that we have been looking for.

?We can now invest in the business confident that we?ve got the regular orders coming in, week in, week out.?

He said the firm, which employs 100 people from its factory on the Somers Road industrial estate, in New Bilton, was chosen for the contracts ahead of other more well-known names in the window industry.

Major improvements have been made to its production line to meet demand, doubling the capacity from 650 window frames a week to 1,200.

Kevin Johns, the firm?s business adviser from Coventry accountants Pilley and Florsham, said: ?Previously, they had been unable to plan their production cost effectively and efficiently because of fluctuating orders.

?One day, they would be too busy to cope; the other there would be little for the workforce to do.?

Nationwide was formed in 1986 to manufacture windows for its sister company, Future Homes, which was established two years earlier to build home extensions.

More recently, the company has been supplying organisations and local authorities as far afield as Moscow. It has also been involved in manufacturing a new reversible window, which is easier to clean.